Yasar Yunus

Yasar Yunus was President of Northern Cyprus during the early 2000s.

Biography
Yasar Yunus was born in Northern Cyprus to a family of Turks, and he became the country's president during the 1990s. Like his Greek Cyprus counterpart Dimitri Nicolaou, he supported the healing of sectarian tensions on the island, and, with British, Egyptian, and Malaysian aid, he succeeded in resolving a maritime border dispute in his country's favor. Ironically, the peace deal between the two countries led to a nationalist insurgency breaking out in Cyprus.